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[Narr]

Anyone recently fire up a game they haven't played in about half a year or longer and discover much to their astonishment that their skills have not diminished in the least?

This happened to me most recently with Battlefield 2142 (I still kick major amounts of ass at that game) and to a lesser degree and even longer ago, Soul Caliber 3.  With Battlefield, I was afraid I'd get smoked and I did for about 2 rounds, then my brain was starting to formulate the bizarro strategies I'm known for in FPS games and I was back to my old knifing sprees.

[imapiratearg]

I'm pretty much terrible at every game I play.  Sometimes, I think I'm good, and then I watch other people play, or I play online or something, and I find out I suck.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

yeah.
i don't own and xbox of any kind and havent for years. the other day me and a couple buddies got baked and decided to see if our friend Conrad (a pro Halo player) was on xbox live. he was. it was the first time i'd even held an xbox controller in ages and i actually did really good. i even killed him a couple times. he beat us every single round we played but i got a couple kills on him which is more than anyone else i know can say. i was very proud and astonished.

[0bsessions]

The words pro Halo player grouped together make me vomit in my mouth just a little bit.

[TheBoredOne]

My brother and I have had Megaman X since it came out on SNES, and only a couple months ago did we figure out how kill Sigma at the end.
Not that we've been trying ever since we had it, but we were noobs and gave up.

[Sythe]

I found my old Half Life disc, popped it in, discovered that I had a save game right before the end and I had never beaten it, and took out the baby thing on the first go.

[Chrasstor]

Super Smash Brothers Melee.  Love that game, and I'll always kick ass at it. It's like riding a bicycle, once you've learned to dodge like a pro, you'll never forget.

[Cenyu]

My skills in old games don't diminuish because they are pretty non-existant in the first place.

[0bsessions]

My brother and I have had Megaman X since it came out on SNES, and only a couple months ago did we figure out how kill Sigma at the end.
Not that we've been trying ever since we had it, but we were noobs and gave up.

I know exactly where you're coming from. When I was a little kid, I played Mario 3 relentlessly trying to beat it. I never could get through Bowser's Kingdom, though. When it came out on GBA, I bought it and got shitfaced at a party we threw and decided to try and beat it. I grinded through and finally beat it (With, like a dozen people hunched over me watching, maybe the moral support helped). I subsequently threw my GBA out the first floor window in a fit of showboating...God bless Nintendo's "Let's build our portables out of adamantium or something" mentality, 'cause the thing was fine when I realized what I just did and went outside to retrieve it.

[TheBoredOne]

Haha yeah. I was taking out garbage once, and I once threw our Nintendo 64 off the balcony of a third floor apt building, because it was wrapped up in a plastic bag, and I thought it was garbage.

The reset button broke, but otherwise it worked fine for another 3-5 years.

[Storm Rider]

My GBA SP went through the washing machine once and still worked fine for years afterwards. There were some dead pixels on the very periphery of the screen, but it played perfectly.

[Bunnyman]

The Wastes for Half-Life.  Don't any of you mofos step to me while I be rollin' wid a Winchester 1887.

[Aceandcups]

To this day, maybe 15 years after I would frequent the local arcade, I can still kick kick major ass. I remember all the kids lining up to play Street Fighter II and I would just step up and beat a couple of the best players. But then I found out that staying indoors for too long can lead to some strange social skills.